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Show PLASHES FEQM THE WIRES. The boomers are squatting on the Cherokee Chero-kee Htrip in great uumbers. A split has occurred in the democratic party of Louisiana, over the lottery question. A Kentucky fanner lias a well the waters cf which are as inflammable as naptha, although clear and drinkable. Sarah Sanders, a comely young woman, horsewhipped Fred Anderson at Caledonia, Vis., yesterday, because he had chastised her little Mother. Arthur E. Cline, a convicted horsethief, has for uorne time been acting as a traveling 2lcthodit preacher in the neighborhood of Blue Earth, Jliun. John Gannon, head usher at the opera house at Houston, Tex., was cowhided ou the street yesterday by Mrs. Hoffman, who-e daughter he had refused to admit to the main floor of tiie theater. An Austrian named Mcdcsto escaped from sn oflicer at Alliance, O., last nisht. The officer llred two shots at the Austrian whil in pursuit". Medesto suddenly threw up his hands id ftjll forward upon the sidewalk. In Ave niir.ut.es he was fiead. He died of fright. George William Curtis has come out in a stronn letter acninst Tummany hall, which is in control of the democratic state campaign in New York. He characterizes Tammany as "'an orgau-izn'ion orgau-izn'ion tor plunder and without politics. 1 The original site of old Valley Forge, which !.'ae the name to the town and to ihe historic his-toric revolutionary campaign ground that has made tht place famous, has just been sold Icre to J'diii Dunn. The tract transferred embraces f fn -oue ;irrcs. and. as tli" sale was peremptory, it eut for the low price of per acre. |